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Rabbit Hole Recap #258: You Can't Trust Prime Trust

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The Diseconomy of Scale in Bitcoin Mining

There's a bath house in Brooklyn that's using A6 to heat up their hot tubs. People like the owner of the spa incorporating Bitcoin mining into his operation because it helps him drive down the cost of actually heating up his pools. That could be a significant amount of hash rate. The thing people don't realize about waste heat and using the heat from Bitcoin miners to subsidize existing heating needs is that waste heat is a diseconomy of scale. And you can't in smaller operations, that is way easier to do.

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